The day tourists leave and we are alone on the reef. We are at sea approx. 50k from the Airlie Beach
The diving platform - our home for the night
Sea turtle grazing on the hull of the diving platform
Fish circling the platform
Day trippers on choppers
The diving platforms submarine
Our group staying overnight snorkeling on the reef after the day tourists left
Our group staying overnight snorkeling on the reef
Tide is out
Tide coming in on the reef
View through the underwater windows on the platform
At night hundreds of white headed noddies arrived to roost
White headed noddy
Late morning and the day tripper tourists arrive and our solitude ends